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Did anybody watch the pregame show, the ABC pregame show, prior to...
Good, Brian did.
I did not watch it.
The National Football League, to me, is football.
It's not rappers and Rolling Stones and creaky, aging Carlos Santana and the rest of these people.
But I got a story here, Brian, at Boston Globe today from a guy named Steve Morse.
He writes a piece here on how the NFL kickoff show falls short at Gillette Stadium.
He was at the stadium watching this, and it wasn't a big deal.
A lot of it was on tape.
Some of the rappers were hidden under football helmets.
Some of them got center stage, or some of the performers.
But there's this interesting paragraph about Kanye West.
It was disconcerting to hear Kanye West's name booed loudly by Patriots fans who evidently didn't appreciate his nationally televised comment the other night on a Hurricane Katrina benefit that President Bush doesn't care about black people.
The booze were thunderous and lasted for much of his number.
Did you see this, Brian?
Oh, okay, so guess what?
That's what I thought.
They cut away to LA where he was so you didn't hear the stadium crowd when he booed, when he was booed.
So people watching ABC last night, watching this pregame show, never saw the Gillette Stadium crowd react to Kanye West.
And so we don't have any audio of this because there is no audio.
We don't have any audio from ABC from television because they weren't there.
But apparently, so they beamed him on the screen, apparently, their videotron, Jumbotron, whatever you call these things now at these stadiums.
And the fans apparently in Boston went nuts.
This is Boston.
This is Boston.
They booed thunderously, and it lasted for much of his number.
Now, it tells me that I've always been consistent here in suggesting here that the leftover plays its hand, even when they have a winning one.
Even when they're close to having a winning hand, they overplay it.
And I think this is a, and they cause a backlash.
And this is sort of a mini example of it, although nobody knows it.
Other than if we hadn't read the Boston Globe today, we wouldn't know that this had happened.
Because it didn't happen on national TV.
So if it didn't happen on TV, it didn't happen as far as the country's concerned, but it did happen in Boston.
So are we to learn something from this?
Yeah, I think we are.
Even in the midst of a disaster where you may have the country dissatisfied with the performance of, I don't care whether the federal government, state government, local city government, and they may be appalled at what they're seeing, they still reject the incendiary injection of race into this for all the obvious reasons, which takes me to a piece here on the American Thinker.
Well, it's one of our favorite blogs, and it's by Rick Moran.
Now, Rick Moran is the proprietor of the blog Right Wing Nuthouse.
Now, interestingly, too, Rick Moran is, I'm told, the brother of ABC White House correspondent Terry Moran.
So let me read to you the headline of this piece, Dancing on the Graves of Black People.
Now, you might get an idea where this is headed.
For the left, the aftermath of Katrina has proven to be a godsend.
And by the way, if I may interject here, I sent F. Lee Levin a note last night during halftime of the football game.
I said, you know, F. Lee, I got a sneaking suspicion that the left's reaction to this is something that they've had in the works ever since 9-11.
I think the left has been waiting for the next terrorist attack.
They've got their battle plan in motion, and they knew when the terrorist attack came that they were going to jump on Bush's case as being ill-prepared, unprepared, lousy, having done nothing, make the case for bigger government, roll out all the video of all the disasters and misery and so forth and so on.
And I think one of the reasons they were able to gin up so fast is they've had this in the works.
They've had it in the works and they've tried to implement it.
They've grown impatient.
When a terrorist attack didn't come and hasn't yet come, they sought refuge in other events that they thought they might, well, let's try it anyway, as in forged documents, as in Cindy Sheehan, as in the 9-11 Commission, which was nothing more than attempting to redefine what happened on 9-11 and the response.
Remember, Bush came out of 9-11, gave a great speech, and the country was unified, and he galvanized his presidency.
And I think the 9-11 Commission, the whole 9-11 hearings, rather, were all about trying to rewrite history.
No, Bush screwed up.
The attack shouldn't have happened in the first place because Bush screwed up.
I think they've been on this mission and they've been trying to implement this plan with every news event that they have seen come along that might fit the mold.
None of them really have.
Then Katrina hits and they salivate and they rub their hands together and they say, you know what?
This is it.
And so they put the plan into motion.
And then they got an added bonus here with the pictures.
And you know full well in a terrorist attack anywhere, simply by virtue of numbers, there are going to be far more middle-class people hurt than say upper class and elites.
In this situation, the pictures, because of the population of New Orleans, the pictures could show only one thing, that is who lives there.
And whoever lived there is who got hurt, whoever lived there and whether they got out or not.
Now, the people that got out, you don't see them on TV because they got out.
But the people that didn't get out, you see them on television.
Pictures tell the story in America.
Ergo, they got an added bonus that this disaster hit New Orleans because the pictures made the case for them.
Since race is one of the central sections of the playbook, here they come.
So they had two things rolled into one here, and they've been waiting to implement because they were out there so fast and so organized and so the press and everybody on this with the whole contentioning Bush blew it.
Bush incompetent.
Bush can't do this.
Bush can't, so forth and so on.
So that's what brings me to this piece here by Bran, who, again, the proprietor of the right-wing NutHouse blog, Dancing on the Graves of Black People.
For the left, the aftermath of Katrina has proven to be a godsend.
In fact, I don't think I've seen them this happy since Hugo Chavez hornswoggled Jimmy Carter into certifying his victory in a recall vote last year.
It does something about communist thugs that brings a smile to the face of an American lefty and makes their hearts go pitter-patter.
But even a victory by the laughing goat couldn't possibly gladden the hearts and warm the cockles of liberals like the prospect of celebrating what?
Well, there's that drop in the president's poll numbers, and then there's, let's see.
Oh, did I mention the drop in the president's poll numbers?
Yes, these are heady days for our left-wing friends.
The fact that their celebrations are taking place as a direct result of the distress, suffering, anguish, and death of maybe tens of thousands of their fellow citizens seems not to be of much concern to our morally superior betters, the left.
In fact, it has emboldened them to advance every crackpot theory on race and class that has poisoned American politics for going on 40 years.
One could say that the left is dancing on the graves of black people, celebrating the exploitation of a political opening brought about by the incompetence of a relief effort in the largely black neighborhoods of New Orleans, except for one thing.
Most of those graves are empty at the moment because the future habitants haven't even been plucked from the floodwaters yet.
But why let a small detail like common decency spoil a good party for the left?
It's Mardi Gras in September the Big Easy.
Liberals are dancing the Cajun Reel with the thousands of grinning skeletons who very soon now will start filling up the temporary mortuaries set up to receive them.
The fact that we will be denied the edifying television spectacle of watching the gruesome task of retrieving these corpses has now led charges to a cover-up, as if focusing a camera on the bloated, blackened remains of our fellow citizens should be made into some kind of TV reality show, kind of a survivor meets the great race, high-concept production.
Why are the syndication possibilities staggering?
By the way, may I make a brief observation?
9-11.
We cannot show those pictures.
Too horrible.
Too horrible to relive, folks.
We can't show those pictures.
That's too much stress and too much trauma for the families.
We can't do that.
We're going to show every damn picture we can out of New Orleans.
During 9-11 and the aftermath and the elections that followed 9-11, the left's, you can't exploit it.
How dare you exploit?
How dare you exploit 9-11 for your political gain?
Why it was a national tragedy?
Who's exploiting Hurricane Katrina for political gain?
The left.
The very people who condemn such actions, to even call them exploitation, after 9-11.
So the hypocrisy is huge and on display for everybody.
But it is amazing.
Mr. Moran here, and there's a lot more to this piece, by the way, which he really rips the administration.
So don't get the wrong idea here, and I'll share parts of that with you too.
But he, nevertheless, raises a great point.
The left is happy.
They're energized.
They're excited in the midst of a national disaster where many of their own constituents were harmed and maybe killed.
The death toll is way, way, way below what projections were.
And they're going house to house.
They're not finding the numbers they thought yet.
It may be good news on that score to some people.
The lower death, you never know how the left's going to react to a lower death toll.
You just don't give them the 10,000 deaths minimum, said the mayor.
Body bags for 25,000 have been flown into the region.
Blah, We haven't even hit 1,000 yet on the official death toll.
We've got a lot of a long way to go, but nevertheless, Mr. Moran has a point.
I have to go.
It's a little long here in the opening segment.
Sit tight.
We're coming right back.
Tim Romer, a 9-11 Commission member to the day on Fox Friends.
Fox and Friends suggested Jimmy Carter to be the, what does he call it?
Well, to head up efforts, I guess the Reconstructions are to head up rebuilding efforts in New Orleans.
Jimmy Carter.
Well, look, I've told you, failure gets you high places in the Democratic Party.
And he's said to be one of the greatest presidents, ex-presidents in history at Hammering Nails, habitat for humanity.
Let me share with you the rest of the piece here by Rick Moran that's at the American Thinker Today.
Consider the hue and cry that went up in the hours and days following September 11th about how we shouldn't be showing images of tortured souls as they jumped to their deaths or the unbearable constant replaying of the horrific scenes of destruction as the towers fell.
The rationale at the time was that such appalling images would breed anger and hate.
But the anger and the hate that would be bred by showing the maggoty corpses left behind by a man-made disaster are perfectly all right, as long as that anger and hate is directed at George W. Bush.
After all, from the left's perspective, if you can't use images of a rotting cadaver for the ultimate good of making Bush look bad, why bother with rotting cadavers?
It's all they have to live for, of course, the left, that, and the possibility the American people become so outraged at the president's choice of Michael Brown to head up FEMA, they will rise up in their righteous anger and smite the Republicans a mortal blow at the polls next year.
The elevation of Horshow Impresario Brown to the lofty perch of FEMA director may have been an unconscionable and unfathomable act of stupidity on the part of the president, but so was having Ron Brown's Commerce Department give technology transfer waivers to American companies so the Chinese Army can improve the accuracy of their ICBMs.
Thank you, President Clinton.
Or selling arms for hostages, Reagan.
Or putting price controls on crude oil, Carter.
Or putting wage and price controls in place when inflation was at the astronomical rate of 4.7%, Nixon.
Or supporting Cuban expatriates in a doom-from-the-start effort to take back their country from Castro.
Thank you, JFK.
Point is that all presidents make mistakes.
They all make huge mistakes.
Some lead to economic distress.
Others actually cost lives.
At this moment, despite the left's charge that Bush is insensitive, I doubt whether the president's getting much restful sleep these past few nights.
If there's anything at all that the American people have sensed about this man on a personal level, it is a sense of a simple, faith-based compassion for his fellow citizens.
Does he recognize personal responsibility in his disastrous choice of Brown as FEMA director?
Firing the incompetent fool would be a good indication one way or another, rights.
Again, I'm reading here from Rick Moran.
But giving Master Brown the heave hole won't satisfy the baying hounds at the president's doorstep.
The ghosts of New Orleans may indeed haunt Mr. Bush's presidency from here on out if he doesn't act soon to counter the impression that the federal government isn't on top of this relief effort.
It isn't enough to promise money and support for the half million displaced people whose lives have been shattered by the storm.
It's a given in America.
It's doing what's expected.
By the way, on this Mike Brown-FEMA business.
Just to tell you what I think, I think the president ought to call a press conference.
Not only am I not going to fire Mike Brown, here is my Supreme Court nominee, and it is either Edith Jones or Michael Lodig.
They're going to criticize him no matter what he does.
This business of trying to make moves to appease the left, when are conservatives in leadership positions going to realize this never works?
There's talk, well, you know, we need to have some, you know, maybe a judge from New Orleans or maybe a black.
Forget the politics of it.
Just do the right thing.
They're going to end up ripping you no matter what you do.
You give them Mike Brown right now.
You open the floodgates.
FEMA has been no great gift to humanity, even when it was, you know, Hillary Clinton's out there talking about how great FEMA was in the Clinton years.
FEMA's always been what it is, a federal bureaucracy.
You know how long it took to get to Charleston, South Carolina after Hurricane Hugo?
Quick.
How long?
How long did it take FEMA to get it?
It took a month.
They didn't get in there for a month.
They didn't start doing actual hard work.
I've got this somewhere in the stack.
Let me dig it up.
FEMA was not on the case full bore for a month into Charleston, South Carolina after Hurricane Hugo.
And George H.W. Bush, he got all kinds of hell for Hurricane Andrew.
At any rate, I just wouldn't give him any quarter.
If they're trying to end his presidency, if I were him, I wouldn't help him out.
Don't give them what they want.
Mr. Moran says that what the president needs to do is unexpected.
Americans will back a president after he makes a mistake only when he admits the error in public and asks for forgiveness.
Reagan and Clinton both made monumental errors in their second terms, and they finished their terms in office with strong support, even affection from the American people because they recognized their mistakes.
They apologized for them and moved on to bigger and better things.
Yeah, well, all well and good, but yeah, this business of apologizing, fine and dandy.
Take a look at Monica Lewinsky today.
She's trying to get into grad school in Europe someplace, and I've got a story in the stack here about how she is just one totally messed up person.
All she wants, all she wants is to get married and have a family, and she put on a whole bunch of weight.
She's just an absolute psychological mess.
And there's one reason for it.
Well, maybe two, but she was an intern at the time.
Stars in the eyes, delivering pizza in the Oval Office.
Quick time out here, folks.
Sit tight.
Much more to go.
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Getting to your phone calls here in just a moment.
Just to wrap this up from Rick Moran, clearly this is a mea culpa moment for Bush, but whether his political enemies, who now have the upper hand, allow him the luxury of such a course of action is problematic.
The left's continued glee at having the president on the run will last only as long as the president stubbornly refuses to make things right with the American people.
Things went horribly wrong in New Orleans, and while the inexplicable gaps of the disaster tag team of blank and Nagan will ultimately come to be seen as at least equally responsible for all this, the American people want an acknowledgement of what they've seen with their own eyes and heard with their own ears.
The people that the president dispatched to deal with the relief efforts failed miserably.
They want the president to take ultimate responsibility for this, and they want it done soon.
Any delay will be seen as playing politics, and that's something the American people have no patience for right now.
Do the right thing, Mr. Bush, and do it now.
Rick Moran wrote this.
Again, the theme here is the left dancing on the graves of black people, dancing and excited at the very pictures we see from this disaster because they think it's going to launch them back to electoral power.
If Mr. Moran here is right that the American people have no patience for playing politics right now, if that's true, then Democrats face a huge backlash and are tremendously overplaying their hands.
Janet in Hampton, Virginia, we'll start with you today.
Great to have you with us.
Rush?
Yes.
Yes, this is Janet.
Listen, I think the most, the one thing I've been so angry about.
Janet, hold it.
You must do me a favor here.
I have a little bit of a hearing problem on the phone this week for some reason.
Would you slow down what you say a little bit so that I could understand?
All right.
I'm just so emotional about what's being ignored throughout this whole tragedy.
How the African American people are not outraged knowing that their best buddies in the world, the Democratic Party, ran a state in, ran Louisiana for 60 years and allowed quarter 75% black population in New Orleans to be 50 to 60% unemployed.
That these are their best buddies in the world that's going to do everything for them.
And the horror I saw on that TV, and I'm an African American, was unbelievable.
These people, this party, that party, because I left the plantation years ago, that party was supposed to be the best buddy of the African American.
And I guarantee you, Rush, and it's not just in Louisiana, there's pockets of people like that all over this country that the Democrats, I bet you those buses was running on Election Day.
I guarantee you that.
I don't doubt what you're saying at all.
In fact, you're echoing many of the things that I have said all week.
I've asked questions.
Who lives in New Orleans is who lives in New Orleans, and who runs New Orleans is who runs New Orleans.
And we have the census figures tell us that 70, what is it, 75% of the population of New Orleans is black.
We also are told that much of it is unemployed and much of it that is employed is still poor.
We also know that it's a black mayor and there have been many black mayors.
We all know all the mayors have been Democrats.
We know the governors have been Democrats for generation after generation.
As I said yesterday, it would seem to me that with liberalism having the power to run around in that state and city unchecked, that we should have a utopia.
Instead, we've got one of the worst crime problems in the country, got one of the worst problems of poverty, one of the worst centers for minority poverty in the country.
It's all run by Democrats.
You're going to have to tell me, because I can't, you're going to have to tell me why the loyalty between those people and the Democratic Party survives.
I only have one theory.
And when I learned yesterday, Janet, that some of the people in New Orleans refused to evacuate because their welfare checks were coming on the 1st of September, and they didn't want to miss those checks.
That tells me all I need to know.
They have whatever they have, however little it is, all comes from their government.
And they can't, they couldn't leave because they feared missing their check, and then they'd be out of money.
And I think the answer has to lie somewhere there.
All these years, these people have been created as essential wards of the state.
And the way they look at it, if it weren't for the government, they'd have less than they already do.
They don't look around the rest of the country and see prosperity, even among black people around this country.
They don't see the prosperity all over the country.
They somehow miss that.
And I don't know.
Beyond what I've said, I don't understand it.
Can you tell me?
I don't understand it either.
I was brought up and raised into projects myself.
We were always taught that no one owed us anything.
Your responsibility lies with yourself.
Janet, how old are you?
If you mind my asking, how old are you?
55.
55.
You know, okay, I have, let me just share with you some conversations I've had with people like you.
Thomas Sowell is a good friend of mine.
Thomas Soule grew up in Harlem.
Dr. Soule's near 70 now, but he tells the same story that you do, that when he was growing up, there was a whole different culture.
And it was a culture of be the best you can be and don't let these obstacles in your way stand in your way.
And the family unit was built around the church.
And I've had others who have of similar age, 55 to 60 to 70, tell me the exact same story.
And something happened along the way here.
Some people think it's the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and LBJ and the Democrats getting credit for that.
That sort of is the new solidification of the Democrats and the minority population, the black population of the country.
Then after that happened, the Democrats then set about destroying the black family by creating this massive welfare state, which replaced the need for husbands and fathers in black communities.
And it's been a steady dissent ever since.
And yet, these things have happened over the course of time.
And the victims of all this still blame people who have had nothing to do with it.
Exactly.
I just don't understand it.
I mean, it's just, it's like it's acceptable if someone walks up to you and said, I'm going to take care of you from the cradle to the grave, and they accept it and think that's life.
That is not life.
Well, but you know, it's even worse than that, Janet, because not only was that said, I'm going to take care of you cradle to grave, then when that turned out not to be a whole big deal, the Democrats who were promising to take care of these people cradle to grave blamed the lack of economic progress on the Republicans.
They said, you've got to keep voting for me because those guys will take away from you whatever I've given you.
And so, all right, I'll keep voting for you to keep these benefits, whatever, coming.
But they didn't increase and they didn't get large enough to build reservoirs of wealth.
They certainly didn't get people out of poverty.
They didn't get people out of the dependency cycle they were in.
And the Democrats continue to blame Republicans for this.
And it's gone on for 50 years now, almost, to the point that the people who complain about their economic plight keep voting for the same people who are responsible for it because they get away with blaming others.
So, you know, and I'm afraid that it's the die is cast.
I'm afraid that, you know, you have every now and then we get stories and calls from people like you who give us hope that maybe this is changing, but it really doesn't seem to.
And now this business out of New Orleans, let me share a poll here with you that I've got.
This is a pew poll, and it's taken after the Kanye West statement.
And they actually went out and asked American blacks, do you agree with Kanye West?
66% of blacks in America say they believe Kanye West was right to some degree.
And a vast majority believe that the response would have been faster in New Orleans if the victims were white.
Well, I don't know what we're to do with this.
This is shocking and saddening.
It is wrong.
The initial response was to get everybody out of there by the mayor and the governor.
We now know that Max Mayfield, Max Mayfield, the guy who runs the Hurricane Center personally, he doesn't do this much, personally called the governor and the mayor and said this is going to be get everybody out of there.
And the governor still dragged her feet.
Some people theorize that one of the reasons Governor Blanco did not, and even when President Bush called her on the Sunday, begging her to put the evacuation order and get everybody out of there, people are speculating that she didn't want to do that because she didn't want any credit descending to Republicans if something went right.
She wanted to be able to hog all the credit for herself if everything went right, as though she stood up to big Republicans.
She's a big Kerry supporter, by the way, Catherine Blanco was.
Now that everything has gone wrong, of course, now we turn it around, blame it on the federal government, who they just can't walk in there.
But, you know, how many people even know this?
They just can't walk in.
And if they had, if the federal government had gone in there after Kathleen Blanco, whatever, if she had said, no, I don't think we're going to need your help.
Look, you don't recognize what's going on here, Governor.
We're coming in there.
We're taking over.
Can you imagine the hell to pay if the governor gone in and overridden, if the president gone in and overridden a Democrat governor and state?
You know, it's just, it is a mess.
It's become a cesspool.
Mr. Snerdley, what's your question?
What were you going to say?
Mm-hmm.
Mr. Sterdley says there's a logical explanation for the 66% of blacks believing Kanye West.
Well, I'll check your logical explanation after the break.
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Somebody help me out.
What year was Hurricane Hugo?
At any rate, somebody find out what your Hurricane Hugo was.
Here's a little bit of a story.
This is from the Charleston, South Carolina Post and Courier.
Headline, FEMA again plays the villain to some across low country.
Hard feelings toward agency stirred up as residents watch familiar response.
Hurricane Katrina is leaving one more big black blotch on the reputation of FEMA, vilipide in the low country since Hurricane Hugo and frustrating residents as recently as Hurricane Gaston last year.
The nation's watched in horror as New Orleans has descended into lawlessness and despair in the wake of Katrina.
By most accounts, armed looters now roam the streets.
Tens of thousands of thirsty and tired refugees wait in filthy conditions for transportation out.
Katrina is worse than what Charleston saw after Hugo, where FEMA's response also trailed local efforts.
Critics say that FEMA response for the new storm is just as slow as it was for Gaston last year.
Local residents and officials watch it with reactions that range from disappointment to disgust.
U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings, now retired, used his political muscle to move military support instead behind Mayor, Charleston Mayor Joe Riley's effort, Hugo in 1989.
Again, to me, it's a reminder our country can do much better, said Mayor Joe Riley, who led Charleston's response to Hugo in 1989.
After Hugo devastated the counties around Charleston, local officials pleaded for emergency help, were told by agency officials strapped for money and personnel to apply through the governor.
Fritz Hollings used his political muscle to move military support instead behind the mayor's efforts.
So the whole point of this is Mrs. Clinton's out there trying to say that FEMA under her husband's administration or anybody else's was this smooth-running, well-running, well-oiled machine, and it never has been.
It is, it's a federal bureaucracy.
And to the extent that red tape is the problem here, and that's the large extent, it's because the bureaucracies are way too big.
But don't fall for this notion that FEMA has always acted first.
They're not a first responder anyway, but the idea that FEMA has been a well-oiled machine up until Mike Brown and George Bush got hold of it.
And don't forget, don't forget that it was the Democrats who wanted FEMA to be part of Homeland Security in the first place.
It's Democrats that wanted to build a new bureaucracy and move FEMA into it after 9-11 happened.
So they're getting away here with rewriting history because their allies of the mainstream press are simply an echo chamber for what they are saying.
So there's so many misconceptions and so many lies actually are being passed off as truth.
Linda in Salina, Alabama, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hello.
Yeah, hi, Linda.
We're going to have real phone problems here, folks.
You'll have to pardon the password.
That's right.
We have problems there, too.
How are you, Linda?
Oh, well, we're doing fine, Rush.
We're independent truckers, and we're down here in Salina, Alabama with a load of water for the flood victims.
It's a FEMA load.
And we have been jerked around since last night.
We were first in Meridian Naval Air Station and sat there all night until about 5.30 this morning.
We finally got through the gate, and they sent us from there over to Salina, Alabama.
Now, wait, wait, wait, wait just a second.
You're using they.
You say it's a FEMA load.
So FEMA has given you the water.
But who is it that's making you play a jigsaw puzzle here?
It's FEMA.
That's who we report to at Meridian Naval Air Station.
That's who was running the show there.
And they are here in Salina, Alabama.
And you have never seen such a disaster in your life, a bureaucratic nightmare.
There's probably 400, maybe more, trucks sitting here, loaded, and nowhere to go.
This sounds like the fiasco we've heard.
The mayor put out a call for all these firemen from around the country.
And so the fireman says, oh, you know, we'll heed the call, answer the call.
They go down there and they find out they're going to use firemen to pass out pamphlets telling people where to go to get what.
And so many of the firemen say, I didn't think they'd come down here to pass out pamphlets.
So, hey, folks, this is this bureaucracy on parade.
Here you go.
Bim, bam, thank you, ma'am.
And, you know, the big government crowds out there say we need an even bigger government to make this more efficient.
You can probably just in these eyewitness accounts, pick up the problem yourself.
Big break time back after this.
Stay with us.
You may have heard that Democratic congressional leaders have said, no, we're not going to participate in this investigation that Bill Frist and Haster are talking about.
Pelosi, and I think Reeves is, you can't make this.
We're not going to participate.
They were calling for it first.
Now, why do you suppose that they're going to not participate in the investigation?
They demanded it.
You know, this is, and nobody, I can't, I've waited patiently.
Nobody's speculating in the media what this is all about.
The media just going right along with it, oh, the Republicans are just a bunch of phonies and they're trying to set up a scam investigation.
We're not going to participate.
That's not what this is about.
The Democrats have suddenly realized, uh-oh, we in big trouble if there's an honest investigation, what this thing is going to show up about a bunch of Democrats in Louisiana and about a particular Democrat senator from Louisiana.
And they want no part of that, folks.
That's the truth of this pulling out of this investigation.